Mgr-Enterprise Strategic Projects

Job Summary

We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways. Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today!

About the Role

The Manager - Enterprise Strategic Projects leads enterprise-level strategic projects by managing a portfolio of complex, high-impact work that advances system strategic priorities. Serves as a trusted partner to executive leadership, translating project vision into executable projects while proactively identifying and mitigating risk.

Responsibilities

• Oversees a portfolio of complex, high-impact enterprise projects that advance organizational strategy, ensuring alignment with executive priorities and system-level outcomes
• Serves as a trusted partner to senior leaders and executive sponsors to shape project strategy, translate strategic intent into executable plans, and drive alignment across stakeholders
• Identifies, assesses, and mitigates enterprise-level risks while navigating diverse stakeholder interests to maintain momentum, accountability, and clarity of decision-making
• Ensures initiatives meet or exceed targeted business outcomes by tracking progress, surfacing insights, and driving timely decisions that enable successful execution and sustained impact
• Delivers results in complex, ambiguous environments by influencing cross-functional stakeholders and applying rigorous project governance and execution practices, without direct authority
• Evaluates resource capacity, dependencies, and tradeoffs across initiatives to ensure optimal use of people, time, and funding while maximizing enterprise value and return on effort
• Provides clear, timely insight to leaders through progress tracking, issue escalation, and data-driven recommendations that enable informed decision-making and timely course correction

Requirements

• Education Required: Bachelor's in engineering, business administration, public health, finance, healthcare administration or related field
• Work Experience Required: 7 years experience in enterprise transformation projects, C-Suite executive sponsored large scale projects, strategy-to-execution initiatives, project management in healthcare or similarly complex industries

Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), or Agile Project Management certification
• Strong financial and operational acumen
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional, executive-level projects
• Exceptional ability to influence without authority
• Excellent judgment, organizational, group facilitation, decision making, and delegation skills
• Able to be self-directed, work independently, set project priorities, and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally
• Ability to travel throughout and between facilities

Benefits

Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.

Pay

Details on pay will be provided during the interview process.

Schedule

Details on schedule will be provided during the interview process.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ochsner Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissue and as part of their employment, incumbents are not called upon to perform or assist in emergency care or first aid. The incumbent has no occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases. Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.